A satire on consumer culture performed in Edinburgh's Debenhams? Too right, and, what's more, Grid Iron's The Devil's Larder is compelling stuff, says Lyn Gardner. She's equally won over by The Exonerated's tale of death-row survivors, on now at the Queen's Hall - so moving that she even gave in to the standing ovation. Meanwhile Phil Daoust reckons that comedian Dan Tetsell's exploration of his German grandfather's past is hardly laugh-out-loud material (he served in the Waffen SS), but it's still gripping and unmissable. Richard Herring's pretty fine, too, finds Leo Benedictus, despite Herring's tendency to overextend his jokes and muse forever on the consequences.
Also today: director Paul Arendt questions whether the Fringe is getting too expensive for performers and punters alike (his own show has racked up nearly 10 grand in expenses already); and Guy Browning asks us to spare a thought for the poor souls performing at the Fringe - in a "permanent state of emotional crisis", poor loves.
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